artificial constraint
collocation in Englishmeaningsofartificialandconstraint
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artificial
adjective
uk/ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/us/ˌɑːr.t̬əˈfɪʃ.əl/
made by people, often as a copy of ...
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constraint
noun
uk/kənˈstreɪnt/us/kənˈstreɪnt/
something that controls what you do by keeping you within ...
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(Definition ofartificialandconstraintfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Specifying a desired velocity along an unconstrained direction and/or a desired force along a constrained direction gives rise to anartificialconstraint.
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Agreement appears to have been presented only within the context of third person subject sentences, anartificialconstrainton sentence input.
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Such prohibition is a whollyartificialconstrainton the prosecutor's ability to put the full case before the court.
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In fact, the timetable will be the subject of theartificialconstraintimposed by the business motion.
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They could be met, but there is no certainty that the market will deliver them, because this is anartificialconstrainton the market mechanism.
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That would be insulting to the many good people who work well in the public sector, but they work within an extraordinarilyartificialconstraint.
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He made an important point for us about the problems generated by the quota scheme involving anartificialconstraint.
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It was theartificialconstraintof the movement of both prices and incomes which has caused the increases of both prices and unemployment.
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We never tried to guillotine that debate or to subject it toartificialconstraint.
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Privatisation will take the water industry out of thatartificialconstraintand unfortunate competition and put it under the natural constraint and competition of the market.
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A time may come for some form ofartificialconstrainton the motorist, and perhaps the policy of subsidising company cars is a good candidate for change.
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The number inside the circles are related to the artificial constraints and to the terminators.
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These databases reflect real-world contemporary practice patterns and are not influenced by the artificial constraints of clinical trials.
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In the states labeled ' restrained ' artificial constraints are applied to translational and rotational motions of the solute.
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When these recommendations are reconsidered outside the artificial constraints from a developmental perspective, however, they are not merely impractical but often misguided.
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These artificial constraints drive the peg in order to achieve a three contact point case.
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In every problem, where manipulators are involved, natural or artificial constraints determined by mechanical and geometric conditions come into play.
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The basic idea of the hybrid force/position approach is to enforce only the artificial constraints.
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We are now operating sunder completely artificial constraints.
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If an economy is to operate efficiently it is essential to improve the operation of the labour market and to remove rigidities and artificial constraints.
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